Bing’s slick HTML5-based site coming soon (WinRumors)

In September, when Microsoft first showed off a future version of Bing that uses the new version of HTML, techies ooh’d and ahh’d at the flashy features. With HTML5, Bing can show videos on the home page, deliver instant search results (like Google Instant), scroll information across the page, animate weather reports and more.

That demo came out of a collaboration with Apple and was shown in the Safari Web browser. A week later, Microsoft showed HTML5-powered Bing on Internet Explorer 9, which uses hardware-accelerated graphics and is currently in beta.

WinRumors reports that Internet Explorer 9 could be shipped on March 24 — Microsoft India may have spilled the beans last Tuesday when it tweeted that date (the Twitter post was quickly removed). Last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Microsoft would lift the beta tag “in the next month or so.”